The IFOA, International Festival of Authors, is an annual event in Toronto for the bookish. Warning: if you don't live in Toronto, you might not want to check out their line-up unless you're prepared to book transportation and purchase memberships and whole backlists to boot. It's not that much of
Nicola Beauman's A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39 (1983) Virago, 1984. Persephone No. 78, 2008. I'm certain that I've said this before, but this is one of my favourite kinds of books about books. Nicola Beauman's A Very Great Profession is obviously written out of a passion for
T. F. Rigelhof's Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, The Better, and the Best Canadian Novels Since 1984 Cormorant Books Inc, 2010 Although I would struggle to choose my favourite kind of bookish book, one like this would certainly be a contender; it is not only a favourite kind of
Well, I've decided. (Decided what?) Partly because the host's reminder of the first round-up for participants has come around. Partly because I think I could have put off deciding for a year, so I felt a snap decision might be better, freeing me to obsess about next year's line-up guilt-free. Partly
David Treuer's Native American Fiction: A User's Manual Graywolf Press, 2006 I can tell you exactly, what the name of the first book that I read from Graywolf Press: Georgia Savage's The House Tibet (1991). What I recall now, nearly twenty years later, is simply that The House Tibet stood
